China's first 1-dose Covid-19 vaccine rolls out; 500m people can be inoculated a year

BEIJING, Feb 28 (Global Times): China's first Ad5-nCoV Covid-19 vaccine was rolled out on Friday (Feb 26). One of the developers of the single-dose vaccine said that the annual production capacity can reach 500 million doses, which means 500 million people can be vaccinated in a year.

Phase-I clinical trials of the vaccine started on March 16, 2020, making it the world's first Covid-19 candidate vaccine that entered clinical trials.